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Police officer and marine veteran of korea, joe followed in his fathers footsteps and has distinguished himself through nearly 40 years of military service. he has commanded marines in the field from the platoon level to a marine expeditionary force during the invasion of iraq he led marines in the charge to baghdad. given his combat ex-peer enwhy, i was proud to nominate joe as the command -- as the commander of american and coalition forces in afghanistan. i have had a chance to work with him....

Officer and marine veteran of korea he followed in his fathers footsteps and distinguished himself through nearly 40 years of military service. hes commanded marines in the field from the platoon level to a marine expeditionary force during the invasion of iraq led marines in the charge to baghdad. given his combat experience i was proud to nominate joe as the commander of american coalition forces in afghanistan. ive had a chance to work with him. i have been extraordinarily impressed by joe fr...

And they would also be a conduit for any support that we might have to bring in and coordinate. at the lower levels if we put them down on the frontline levels, at the company level, platoon level where you might see special operations forces, it might be advice on weapons and tactics. it could be actually helping collect intelligence, reconnaissan reconnaissance. could be to actually control u.s. fires like air support. so depending on the level, obviously, youre going to get a different kind o...

Ground. >> j.u.-cast looks like something from star wars. >> it is the only one of its aircraft that is truly unmanned. it can take off and fly as a robot. this one is designed as a bomber, designed to fly a mission on its own without human input. everything else we see here requires humans to control it. >> this last one, tell me about this one. this is one where humans surrendered to a robot. >> thats right. >> roger connor, thank you for your time today. well check back with you in a bit. guy...

>>gretchen: unmanned aerial vehicles better known as drones, they are probably the coolest and the most controversial weapons of modern-day warfare and theyre making headlines now. >>brian: how do they work? an exhibit at the air and space museum in washington, d.c. takes a closer look. >>steve: thats where anna is joining us live. good morning to you, anna. >> good morning to you guys. good morning to everybody at home. we are at the national air and space museum here in washington, d.c. im joi...

>> roger, its used for what? surveillance? its also capable of attack. >> its primary original purpose was surveillance. it was armed in 2001. the aircraft were seeing here is the very first one to be armed. it is the first one to fire a hell fire in combat. the first combat kill with a predator was this aircraft behind you. >> it was used in what year? >> 2001 in afghanistan. >> the next one we want to talk about is the shadow up here. >> the shadow is another current u.a.v. in service, unmanne...

Embarrassed, but i think our military at the top... either they are timid and i think maybe they are timid, or somehow, they have become so politicized that they cant stand up for them. but the idea that we didnt help an ambassador when he was dying and we didnt help a navy seal who kept calling for fire and we didnt give it to them, in my gym, that is inexcusable. kitell you if that happened at the company or the platoon level, people would be relieved of command. i dont see why generals and th...